Monday, January 28, 2013

Are Pro-Abortion Activitists Really Losing?

Why did Time magazine’s January 14 issue make the claim,
front and center on its cover, that “abortion-rights activists” are
“losing”? Other than marking the 40 year anniversary of Roe v. Wade, it
seems a rather odd statement. But is it really? While some may consider
it shocking for Time to make such an assertion, the conclusion is clear.

From the onset of the article, the author is sympathetic to the
abortion cause. Not only is she sympathetic to their cause, she is
clearly drumming up support for them throughout the article. Certainly,
that is no surprise from the mainstream media. The premise of the
article is that it is more difficult for women to access abortion. Why
should that matter? One word: money.

Shortly after Time published
this piece, Planned Parenthood released their statistics for 2011-2012.
Their statistics, however, do not match the bleak picture painted by
Pickert. By their own statistics, Planned Parenthood performed a record
333,964 abortions. Up, not down, from the previous year and a direct
contradiction to the statement that abortions are more difficult to
obtain. What Planned Parenthood doesn’t want you to know is that
taxpayers are footing the bill, increasing the amount each year. Last
year taxpayers footed the bill to the hefty tune of $542.4 million. No
small change!

What you won’t find in their report or in the Time article
is that Planned Parenthood is doing just fine financially. Its net
assets are valued at $1, 244.7 billion. With a national debt topping an
astronomical $16 trillion, an amount larger than our entire economy, our
country is facing an economic crisis. We are precariously poised to
face a recession or worse unless Congress controls its spending. What
that means for anyone who is receiving a piece of the federal pie is
that they need to create a convincing case that they are worth being
spent on; they are needed and they have a need.
How is Planned Parenthood needed? Just mention a cut in funds and
suddenly they are for women’s health. During the Presidential debates,
President Obama claimed, “There are millions of women all across the
country who rely on Planned Parenthood for mammograms.” Sorry, but it’s
not true. Planned Parenthood does not do a single mammogram. Zero. While
they offer other services, their number one service is abortion.

Bill Clinton once said he wanted to keep abortion “safe, legal and
rare.” According to the Guttmacher Institute more than 1 million
abortions are performed each year. That is hardly rare. What about safe?
According to the Centers for Disease Control more than 400 women have
died from legal abortions since 1973. What about licensing? Why are
pro-abortion activists against safety at abortion clinics, as noted in
the Time article? No
one talks about the women who are driven away in ambulances at the back
door of the “legal” abortion clinics (as in two separate incidents in
Milwaukee on July 21, 2012) or the women who have died or been maimed by
doctors like Milan Vuitch. And no one wants to hear the facts about
partial birth abortion, because it is too gruesome.

Pro-abortion advocates, as well as Planned Parenthood, want to
present themselves as compassionate, caring. Yet, the local pregnancy
help center offers women free ultrasounds and pregnancy tests, while the
abortion clinic across the street charges poor women $75.00 for the
same combined services.

What is Planned Parenthood’s need? The bottom line is
that Planned Parenthood wants to continue receiving your tax dollars.
And the best way to do that is create as many people as possible
sympathetic to their cause. Why the odd story about abortion on the
cover of Time? The
author wants to incite people to support abortion, particularly since
the latest Gallup Poll reveals that more people consider themselves
“pro-life” than “pro-choice.” The tenor of the article is that “the
pro-choice cause is in crisis.” By creating a crisis, pro-abortion
activists hope to gain people’s support. They want to present themselves
as “losing” or in need of financial assistance along with the claim
that they are needed for women’s health. Ultimately, Planned Parenthood,
the largest abortion provider, has a need: Your tax dollars. It’s all
about the money.